The Consequences, Not the Mechanism: What the Resurrection Narratives Are Actually About

About this episode

The episode explores the implications of the resurrection narratives by working backwards through the passion week, emphasizing the consequences over the mechanism of resurrection.

It's Holy Week, which means Bo and I finally stopped talking about chickens, bikes, and CCM songs long enough to do theology — though we did all of those things first. The actual idea Bo had was simple and turned out to be genuinely illuminating: what if we worked our way backwards through the passion week narrative, starting with the post-resurrection appearances on Monday and moving back toward Good Friday? The theory being that if you start at the end and let the consequences of the resurrection interpret everything before it, you read the whole story differently. Turns out, yes, you do. We talked about the fact that no gospel actually describes the resurrection happening — only its effects, only its consequences — and how much Christian energy gets wasted on the mechanism when the texts are entirely uninterested in that question. Tripp's seven implications for Holy Week came fast and hot: the cross as mirror of what civilization does to nonviolent love, PSA as the theological theory with the least observable consequences in people's actual lives, and why loving your enemies isn't a vibe but the specific thing that got Jesus killed. Then Bo discovered Holy Saturday via…

People in this episode

Hosts: Dr. Tripp Fuller, Rev. Bo Sanders

Topics covered

• resurrection narratives
• Holy Week
• theology
• passion week
• Christian implications
• nonviolent love

Keywords

• resurrection
• Holy Week
• theology
• Christianity
• passion week
• nonviolent love
• Balthasar
• Pete Rollins

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Books & works: Balthasar

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